Improvement in apparatus for grooming horses



Patented Dec. i, 1868.

f .G a eA su w 2%/ i nnnq R. BEAUMONT & W. CLARK, Jr.

Grooming Horses.

N. FEERS, PHOTD-LITHDGRAPH ER. WAS MINETON, ,D C.

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e wf RICHARD BEAUMONT AND WILLIAM CLARKE, JR., OF ALBANY,

NEW'YORK.

Letters Patent No. 84,528, dated December 1, 1868,

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR G-ROOMING- HORSES, Bcc.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom litem1/ 1,1 concern.-

Be it known that we, RloHARD BEAUMONT and WIL- LIAM CLARKE, all of the city and county of Albany, State of New York, have invented a new and improved Apparatus for Grooming Horses and other Animals; n

and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l represents a perspective wiew of the appa.

ratus.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of the same.

Figure 3 represents a vertical view from the top.

'lo give the horse or other animal a clean, smooth, and glossy appearance, when the hair has grown long and naturallyrough, the usual methodhas been, first, to clip the hair of such animals with a pair of shears, and then singe it with a. lamp supplied with a wick and fed by some liquid fuel.

This process is not only tedious to both the operator and the anim al, but is attended with more or less danger to both, by the liability of the liquid fuel used escaping' 'om the lamp'or apparatus used neither can the flame used be brought under a quick control.'

By our invention, we dispense with the shear-clipping process, and afford a safe and speedy-process, in which the animal being groomed is not in the least discommoded or injured, and the operator can perform his work in two hours, which, by the old method-required, even -byan expert, at least six hours. 1

The nature of our invention consists of ahandled gasburner, constructed. in a peculiar way, and fed by a rubber, or other flexible hose, from any convenient pipe of gas.

The flow of gas is regulatedby a stop-cock, which enables the operator to give a greaterorless shoot or force to the ame used, and thus perfectly adapt the condition of the flame to the necessities of the coat of hair on the several parts of the-animal, as may be required.

The gas-burner itself is fixed tothe end of a conductpipe, partially encased in a wooden handle, to prevent the uncomfortable warming of the hand, and may be made of any suitable length, and is pierced with escapeholes, placed about one-fourth of an inch apart, through which the gas escapesto be burned.

A comb is also attached, whereby the hair ofthe animal is evened down just before the dame strikes the said hair. The said comb is fixed at nearthe perforated gas-burning tube, and a little below its line of centre, so thatasmall space between the back of the said comb and the face of the burner sis left, to admit a passage l of coohair, which will cause the flame to strike in a more slanting or dat direction in the process of operating.

l To enable others skilled in the art to make and use our invention, we will proceed to describe it in reference to the drawings, and theletters of reference marked thereon, the same letters indicating like parts.

A, figs. 1 and 2, represents the main conduct-pipe of the apparatus, and is furnished with a stop-cock, B, iigs. 1, 2, .and 3.

A part ofthe said conduct-pipe, below the stop-cock, is encased with a wooden handle, O, which not only prevents the hand of the operator from becoming uncomfortably warm, but is intended to finnish him with a better grasp than he would have without such handle.

At the lower end of the said wooden handle C is a connection-tube, D, furnished with a coarse, blunt screwthread, and is made tapering, as shown in iig. 2, and is connected with the main conduct-pipe A, by means of the screw-connection S;

To this connection-tube D, a rubber or other flexible hose, E, is attacl1edby.screwin'g the said tube D into the said hose, to conduct the gas to be used into the apparatus.

Above the stop-cock B, and connected with the main conduct-pipe A, by a screw-connection, S', is a secondary conduct-pipe,.A, having its joint packed with any suitable substance, as washer NV, to make the said joint tight.

The secondary conduct-pipe A terminates in a crosshead tube F, which is perforatedwith escape-holes a a, pierced about one-fourth of an inch apart, through which the gas passes to be consumed, when the apparatus is being operated. l

The line of the said escape-holes aa is placed alittle above a horizontal line drawn through the centre of the cross-head F.

A comb, G, is attached to the face o the apparatus, with its teeth a little below a horizontal line drawn through the centre of the cross-head F, andwithaspace, c, between, as shown in figs. 2 and 3.

The said space c is tp allow a current of cool air to pass between the back of thercomb G and the front of the cross-head F, so that a draught will be thrown between the flame and surface of hair bein-g operated upon.

The said comb G is attached to the secondary tubel A', by means of the screws e e, gs. l and 2, and has its teeth bent outward, towards the face of the apparatus.

The cross-head F, and the comb G attached thereto,

vmay be made in any size as regards spread, as will suit the vrequirements of the several parts of the animal to be operated upon. Two sizes of such parts are generally used to make a set.

In operating with 'this invention, the ilexible hose E is attached by screwing the connection-tube D into it. lf the hair of theanimal to be groomedis long, rough, and to a great degree dead, the stop-cock B may be so turned as to admit afull head of gas,I which will escape through the holes a a with considerable force, and,

when ignited, will aorda strong and lengthy llame; or, if the condition of the hair to be operated upon is better, the force and length of the flame may be diminished by partially cutting ofi the head of gas by rneans of the stop-cook.

The operator, in using this apparatus, holds it in one hand, and passes it rapidly and repeatedly over the surface ofthe hair, in the direction of its nap, and follows the flame with a brush held and operated by the other hand.

Having described our invention, We do not claim using gas in jets for singeing; but

What We claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat In combination with a handled encased conduct-pipe, A, the cross-head pipe F, perforated with the escapelloles a a, placed as described, and combined with the comb G, in sueh a manuel' as to leave the air-space e between the said cross-head F and the comb G, and all constructed and arranged in the manner speeied, for the purposes set'f'orth.

RICHD BEAUMONT. NVM. CLARKE, J R.

NVitnesses Re-HD VARICK DE WITT, DUDLEY W. DE WITT. 

